Kansas City #Royals stats, data, news. Creator of Lumber+: https://teapaw.org/t.co/FDCEOVYEa9
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Baseball season is over. Hopefully it's back on time in 2027.
Meanwhile... It's time for the geeks to shine. I've updated the public Lumber+ leaderboard with four full years of data for your perusal.
Better news? That dataset shows just how useful this metric is.
Royals Data Dugout retweeted
Today at @royalskeep, I break down the #Royals 40-man roster and what kind of moves they need to make before free agency begins on Monday #FountainsUp royalskeep.com/news-rumors/k…
Choose your #Royals offseason path:
-Vinnie Pasquantino, age 29, $5.5M, 109 wRC+, 103.9 Lumber+
-Trade Pasquantino for a controllable arm AND sign Seiya Suzuki, age 32, 4yr/$100M (estimated), 120 wRC+, 103.6 Lumber+
40%Pasquantino
60%Suzuki
57 votes • Final resultsNeed to create a Chiefs account so I can detail how hard Andy Reid screwed his team out of a win with unforced errors today.
Pitiful.
Each season includes all players with 50+ plate appearances BUT my backtesting reveals the model becomes much more reliable at 200+ plate appearances. Be careful with the smaller-sample players. (Note, 2023 was the first year of bat-tracking data, and some players with 50+ PA are missing from the set.)
🔗: royalsdata.github.io/LumberM…
I'm still working through the 2026 results myself, but please browse, ask questions and feel free to share. I'll eventually post some 2025>2026 hits and misses from the model to find where it correctly predicted breakouts (hello, Jake Bauers!)
Signing Justin Tucker is objectively crazy for an organization that’s moaned and groaned recently about hard-hitting questions from local media like “Where is Josh Simmons?”
Just want to give an early shoutout to whichever local Chiefs reporter has the stones to ask about Josh Simmons after this loss.
Chiefs brass made the choice to leak that story this morning and I have no doubt Andy will give the worst answer(s) imaginable tonight.
People took this one VERY seriously
Figured including Saskatchewan would make the sarcasm quite obvious
Go Brewers
Old guy take. The only downside of this World Series: two domes.
MLB should’ve moved the series to an outdoor neutral site. Boston or Minnesota or Saskatchewan.
October baseball is guys blowing air into their hands. Baggy sweatshirts under jerseys. Jim Leyland’s cheeks turning cherry red. Dip spit stuck to chapped lips.
Old guy take. The only downside of this World Series: two domes.
MLB should’ve moved the series to an outdoor neutral site. Boston or Minnesota or Saskatchewan.
October baseball is guys blowing air into their hands. Baggy sweatshirts under jerseys. Jim Leyland’s cheeks turning cherry red. Dip spit stuck to chapped lips.
Hello friends, been a minute. Your final top 40 Lumber+ rankings for 2026. Two #Royals among the game’s best out of 318 hitters with 250+ PA, along with Carter Jensen at 47th (104 Lumber+).
